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Data & Analytics · Intermediate

Google Cloud Dataflow

Google Cloud's serverless, autoscaling service for running Apache Beam pipelines for unified batch and stream processing.

Definition

Dataflow handles windowing, watermarks, exactly-once processing and autoscaling, and offers prebuilt templates such as Pub/Sub to BigQuery.

Exam tip

New serverless batch or streaming pipelines on Google Cloud = Dataflow; existing Spark or Hadoop jobs = Dataproc.

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